Omega Professional Boar Hair Shaving Brush with Colored Handle

by Omega

Product Features

• Available in Black, White or Red handle
• High quality, natural boar hair
• Bristles are longer than normal
• Great starter brush
• Height: 5 1/4"

Product Description

Color: Black

For those who prefer a little color with their shave, the Omega professional shaving brush is also available in a variety of hued mock-ivory handles. The Omega brush's bristles are longer than normal and of natural boar hair. A great starter brush, the Omega Professional shaving brush transforms the soap into a denser, richer foam. Handle colors: Black, White, Red.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches ; 2.9 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000CBBYW0
• Item model number: 10049
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,009 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Brush, December 9, 2010

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Jeffrey Fink (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Handled Omega Professional Boar Hair Shaving Brush (Health and Beauty)

This thing would be a deal at twice the price. It's a large brush, and as the boar hair breaks in- the ends actually split- it gets softer and softer. Works well for face or bowl lathering, works fine with creams and great with soaps.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Build, January 7, 2011

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Doug - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Black Handled Omega Professional Boar Hair Shaving Brush (Health and Beauty)

I am impressed with this brush. It has a very sturdy and stout handle, which makes it very ergonomic. A shaving snob might not like something this cheap, but this brush is perfect for an economical (poor) person like me. It definitely gets the job done and looks as good as it feels.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I May Become A Boar Hair Convert, October 6, 2011

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Joseph (Ridgewood, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red handled Omega Professional Boar Hair Shaving Brush (Health and Beauty)

I bought this brush because I had purchased another Omega boar bristle shaving brush, "Omega Shaving Brush #10048 Boar Bristle aka The PRO 48" here on Amazon as well. I bought it because it looked like it had a really full knot and long bristles - in that regard the picture was accurate. What I didn't love was that it really smelled "piggy" and also the plastic chrome handle felt really cheap in my hand. BUT I love it anyway (really I do) ...

I own a number of brushes, among them good badger hair as well ... real stuff, 100% Silver Tip Badger Hair. They are totally luxurious to use ... soft, elegant and hold a tremendous amount of moisture and lather. That's always the basis for the comparison with badger hair to boar bristle brushes, i.e.: boar bristle brushes are NOT as soft and DON'T hold as much moisture or lather.

This brush is NOT A BADGER HAIR BRUSH ... but that doesn't matter one bit to me. I didn't buy it to simulate or compete with a badger hair brush. I wanted to experience a really good boar bristle brush ... and with regard to the head this brush makes the grade as far as I'm concerned (the handle is still cheap plastic, but attractive nonetheless - I have the red handle version).

PROS: Really long bristles, nice tight and full knot, really soft for a boar bristle brush, little to no smell, no shedding (so far after a few uses)

CONS: Nothing really significant. I don't love the plastic handle, but it's a $13.95 brush, not a $139.50 brush, other than that nothing I can think of for a boar bristle brush.

What I love about this brush, that could make me a boar bristle convert ... REALLY AND TRULY ... is that it's remarkably soft and full. It's as soft as a "best badger hair" brush IMO ... and that's pretty much out of the box. While I haven't used this brush as much as the other Omega I mentioned above it's already beginning to show splitting of the bristles (really important for a boar bristle brush, the more the ends of the bristles split the better the brush becomes to use).

The Omega "Pro 48" is really working in nicely, the bristles are splitting and softening wonderfully, and it's really great at creating a lather. This brush is already breaking in well, and it began softer than the "Pro 48" and I'm guessing it will continue to improve as I use it. However it's all about the lathering for me. This brush creates and holds a great lather.

I do a combination of working up a preliminary lather in a bowl and then finish working up the lather on my face. This allows me to really "tune" the lather to my liking as I paint it on and work it into my beard. If it's a little wet I'll work it a little longer, if it's a little dry I'll wet the head of the brush and work some water into the lather on my face. Either way I get to work the lather into my beard well, and that works well for me. I have a rather coarse beard that grows in multiple directions so the softer I can get it before shaving the better. Face lathering really helps with softening my beard, and I'm finding that a boar bristle brush does a better job than my badger hair.

So I'll continue to use different brushes as the mood strikes me on any particular day, but I'm becoming a boar bristle guy more and more ... and I have to say I'm really impressed with the quality of the Omega brushes so far.

Now if they'd only put a great handle on a boar bristle brush they'll get a full five star review from me ...

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